Saturday, April 3, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Two Principal Things
"As men we only do two things in life - Enter and leave." - Dr. Edwin Louis Cole
Ed Cole
Edwin Louis Cole inspired this blog and it will serve in honor of him and his awe inspiring and gentlemanly life. - Keith Russell
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Og mandino
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.
Why do you still think of the love that your own foolishness and temerity caused you to lose, long ago? Will that memory help your digestion this morning?
Why do you still grieve over your failures? Will tears improve thy skills while you labor for your family, today?
Why do you still remember the face of he who harmed thee? Will the thought of sweet revenge enable you to sleep better tonight?
Friends dead, jobs failed, words that wounded, grudges undeserved, money lost, sorrows unhealed, goals failed, ambitions destroyed, loyalties betrayed – why have ye preserved all this evil clutter as if it had value? Why have ye allowed such cobwebs of infamy to gather in the attic of your mind until there is scarcely room for a happy thought about this day?
Sweep out the tragic strands to the past that have accumulated with the years. Their festering entrails will choke you in time, if you are not diligent. The ability to forget is a virtue not, a vice.
And yet, to know that yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its pains and tears, has passed forever and cannot harm you, is not enough. So Almost you must believe that you can do nothing about tomorrow, with it possible heartaches and blunders, until the sun rises again. All you have, that you can fashion as you wish, is the hour at hand.
Never let worry about tomorrow cast a shadow over today. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. Waste not a moment’s thought on that which may never happen. Concern thyself only with the present. He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.
Forget what is past and let God concern himself with the future. He is far more capable than you.
Why do you still think of the love that your own foolishness and temerity caused you to lose, long ago? Will that memory help your digestion this morning?
Why do you still grieve over your failures? Will tears improve thy skills while you labor for your family, today?
Why do you still remember the face of he who harmed thee? Will the thought of sweet revenge enable you to sleep better tonight?
Friends dead, jobs failed, words that wounded, grudges undeserved, money lost, sorrows unhealed, goals failed, ambitions destroyed, loyalties betrayed – why have ye preserved all this evil clutter as if it had value? Why have ye allowed such cobwebs of infamy to gather in the attic of your mind until there is scarcely room for a happy thought about this day?
Sweep out the tragic strands to the past that have accumulated with the years. Their festering entrails will choke you in time, if you are not diligent. The ability to forget is a virtue not, a vice.
And yet, to know that yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its pains and tears, has passed forever and cannot harm you, is not enough. So Almost you must believe that you can do nothing about tomorrow, with it possible heartaches and blunders, until the sun rises again. All you have, that you can fashion as you wish, is the hour at hand.
Never let worry about tomorrow cast a shadow over today. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. Waste not a moment’s thought on that which may never happen. Concern thyself only with the present. He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.
Forget what is past and let God concern himself with the future. He is far more capable than you.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
ENTERING
Since this is a blog about entering and leaving and since we are just entering this project, we are entering correctly by serving proper notice: YOU ARE NOW ENTERING A SITE ABOUT WISDOM - UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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